Now that the Encyclopedia of Life has integrated GloBI data into its species pages, the Atlantic croaker page includes dietary habits as well as information about parasites such as Cymothoa excisa. It's a win-win: users of the Encyclopedia of Life gain access to all sorts of structured species-interaction data, and the hardworking scientists who collected the data are attributed for their research.

At time of writing (January 24, 2014), GloBI includes about half a million global interactions with close to four hundred references, spanning over a century of species-interactions data. As GloBI continues to aggregate existing datasets, we lower the barrier to accessing important data and put the scientists who've made contributions to the field of biology in the spotlight.